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BBC英语新闻集锦Fruit and Veg and Serious Illness 水果、蔬菜和疾病[00:00.07]Take away English from the BBC.[00:02.84]One of the most commonly-held beliefs regarding health and nutrition in the UK has been found to be untrue, according to a new scientific study.[00:12.25]For many years British people have been recommended to eat at least 'five-a-day' ¨C[00:17.96]that is five items of fruit or vegetables every day in order to improve their health and reduce the likelihood of illness, in particular cancer.[00:27.75]The recommendation was first put forward in 1990 by the World Health Organization[00:33.62]which said that the 'five-a-day' diet could prevent cancer and other chronic diseases.[00:39.80]Since then the advice has been a mainstay of public health policies in many developed countries,[00:46.20]such as the UK, where the population eat a high proportion of junk food. [00:51.12]Many health campaigns have promoted the advice, and indeed much food packaging in Britain states how the contents will constitute part of your five-a-day.[01:01.64]However, a study of 500,000 Europeans from 10 different countries refutes the commonly-believed suggestion[01:09.31]that up to 50% of cancers could be prevented by increasing the public's consumption of fruit and vegetables.[01:16.58]Instead the study, which is led by researchers from a well-respected New York medical school,[01:22.33]estimates that only 2.5% of cancers could be averted by eating more fruit and veg.[01:29.22]It seems that the key to avoiding cancers is to have an overall healthy lifestyle which includes not smoking or drinking a lot of alcohol, taking exercise and avoiding obesity.[01:41.91]But medical charities have spoken out to remind people that diet is an important factor in staying healthy,[01:48.95]and that even a 2.5% reduction in cancers is still a positive step.[01:54.51]Cancer Research UK said: "It's still a good idea to eat your five-a-day but remember that fruits and vegetables are pieces in a much larger lifestyle jigsaw."美国试图修补与阿富汗关系[00:00.17]BBC News this is Mike Cooper.[00:03.15]Many thousands of people have lined the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw to witness the return from Russia of the body of the President Lech Kaczynski following Saturday's air crash.[00:13.10]On arrival in Warsaw the coffin draped in the red-and-white Polish flag was carried from the plane by a group of army officers and born along a red carpet past waiting dignitaries.[00:22.65]In all, 96 people died in the crash. Brian Hanrahan reports from Warsaw. [00:27.24]Right across Warsaw, there are small banks of candles and photographs - makeshift memorials to the 95 people who died along with the president.[00:35.51] Read down the list of the dead, and you will soon see why this disaster has touched so many people personally.[00:41.09] It's not just the politicians in the military who died by the dozen, but a whole range of public figures - representatives of the barrister,[00:50.08]the Olympic Committee, cultural figures and academics. This was a delegation that represented the nation.[00:55.34]After the first day of voting in Sudan's elections, correspondents say a picture of confusion and disarray is beginning to emerge.[01:02.84]The party of the former southern rebels, the SPLM has asked for a four-day extension to the scheduled three days of polling because of reported irregularities. [01:11.79]Martin Plaut is in Khartoum.[01:13.24]While the process generally went well in the capital Khartoum, in the rest of the country the very opposite was frequently the case.[01:20.66]In several states, from the Red Sea in the north to the far south of the country, voters had little chance of exercising their democratic rights.[01:28.49]This country has seen little peace since independence in 1956. To hold an election as complex as this one in a country as underdeveloped as Sudan was always going to be a tall order.[01:40.27]The authorities will have to strain every nerve if these problems are to be resolved in the time that remains.[01:46.57]The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Defense Secretary Robert Gates have sought to repair US relations with the Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. [01:55.69]He's accused Washington of trying to dominate Afghanistan and weaken his government.[02:00.09]Mr Gates described the US military and the Afghan authorities as having a good working relationship.[02:05.71]"I think that the Afghans are very concerned about their sovereignty, and they are very concerned that it be clear[02:13.24]who is the president of Afghanistan and that he be treated with respect because he is the representative of the people of Afghanistan and their sovereignty.[02:22.14]And I think we frankly have to be sensitive in our own comments about President Karzai in terms of being mindful[02:29.91]that he is the embodiment of sovereignty for Afghanistan also in the way we treat him."[02:35.35]European Union finance ministers have given final approval to a 40-billion-dollar rescue package for Greece if Athens decides it needs it.[02:43.76]Details of the package made up of loans at a favorable interest rate were finalized in a video conference call by ministers from countries that use the euro. [02:51.84]The plan is designed to reassure financial markets and prevent Greece from going bankrupt.[02:57.21]World News from the BBC[02:59.95]Iran has said that it will make a formal complaint to the United Nations over changes of United States nuclear policy announced by President Obama last week. [03:09.12]Iran says the US move amounts to an implied threat to use nuclear force against it.[03:14.00]The US said it wouldn't use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear powers which comply with international treaties,[03:19.94]singling out Iran and North Korea as two states in violation of such agreements.[03:24.93]The head of Kyrgyzstan's self-declared interim government has said she cannot guarantee the safety of the fugitive[03:31.78]President Kurmanbek Bakiyev against people seeking revenge for those killed during his overthrow.[03:37.21]Roza Otunbayeva said her government could not restrain those who wanted, as she put it, to rush to Mr Bakiyev's hideout with rifles.[03:44.95]Mr Bakiyev is hiding in the south of the country.[03:47.94]Exit polls following Hungary's parliamentary elections suggest that voters have rejected the governing Socialists who have been in power during the severe economic crisis in the country.The exit polls point to a convincing victory for the conservative opposition party, Fidesz, which may become the first party to govern without a coalition since democracy was restored in 1990.From Budapest, here is Nick Thorpe.Voting was extended in several places beyond the deadline as long queues formed. Separate exit polls forecast the return to power of Fidesz, the Christian Democratic Party which last held office eight years ago.[04:23.28]They are expected to win between 54 and 57% of the vote. The Socialists are a distant second with around 20% and[04:32.05]the far-right Jobbik close behind them with between 15 and 17% according to the exit polls.[04:39.11]Nine people have been killed in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa when masked gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.The city's police chief said the shooting took place on Saturday night and involved druggangs fighting over access to lucrative cocaine trafficking routes to the United States. [04:57.67]BBC News世行行长称第三世界说法已过时[00:00.08]BBC News with David Legge.[00:02.70]An earthquake that struck the remote Chinese province of Qinghai is now known to have killed almost 600 people and injured thousands.[00:10.84]The tremor wrecked the town of Jiegu. The BBC correspondent in the province says cold and rain are hampering relief operations.[00:18.60]A local teacher told the BBC's Chinese service that almost all residential housing in Jiegu had collapsed, and so had its school.[00:26.82]The extents of the destruction of houses is very bad. More than 80% of the residential houses built with mud and brick have collapsed.[00:41.55]And many people have been buried or trapped underneath. We are now helping people to carry out rescues on their own, but we lack heavy lifting equipment. [00:52.09]President Obama has urged top Republican and Democrat leaders to speed up majority regulatory reforms,[00:59.20]major regulatory reforms of the US financial system, widely seen as his next big political challenge at home.[01:05.45] In face to face talks with senior politicians, Mr Obama urged them to approve the reform bill, saying the United States could not afford another financial meltdown.[01:14.84]At a news conference in Washington, the US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner explained why he thought the bill was important.[01:21.36]I think it's a critical moment for reform, a promising moment.[01:24.26]A lot of hard work, a lot of progress. It's been two and a half years since this crisis started,[01:29.40]more than a year since we first laid out a comprehensive set of reforms and I think we know what we need to know about the choices we face.[01:39.71]It's just time to decide and time to move.[01:41.19]Republican figures said that in its present form, the legislation would only institutionalize the bailing out of failed banks.[01:48.37]The head of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke has said that addressing the record federal budget deficit should be a top priority[01:55.72]for the American government as postponing it could jeopardize a full economic recovery.[02:00.84]Mr Bernanke said he was also worried about the impact high unemployment rates could have on the recovery.[02:06.76]The Americans say they are increasingly concerned about reports that Syria may be providing Hezbollah in Lebanon with Scud ballistic missiles.[02:15.11]Israel has accused Syria of supplying Scuds to Hezbollah, but it's not clear whether any have actually been handed over.[02:21.61] Here is our state department correspondent Kim Ghattas.[02:24.35]The White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs said the US had expressed itsconcerns to the governments involved.[02:30.22]That would be Syria and Lebanon. He talked about sophisticated weaponry that is allegedly being transferred into Lebanon.[02:38.06] Hezbollah is backed by Iran. If it obtains medium-range missiles, this could alter the military balance in the region.[02:45.48]Mr Gibbs was responding to questions about the accusation made by the Israeli president,[02:51.34]but he did not confirm that the transfer had taken place.[02:54.82]This is the latest World News from the BBC.[02:58.91]Scientists in Britain have successfully created human embryos containing DNA from a man and two women.[03:06.93]The technique could be used within three years to prevent mothers with genetic disorders from passing them to their unborn children.[03:14.08]Women with damaged mitochondria, manute structures that power human cells, are more likely to produce disabled children than their healthy counterparts.[03:23.03]Researchers from Newcastle University managed to bypass the problem by implanting genes from the fertilized egg of one woman into a healthy donor egg from another woman.[03:33.13]A Dutch nurse who was jailed for life for murder she did not commit has been exonerated and given a public apology.[03:40.19]Lucia de Berk was convicted in 2001 of killing seven people in her care and served six years in prison.[03:46.72]The attorney general in the Netherlands said experts had mistakenly testified that she'd killed patients who'd probably died of natural causes.[03:55.07]The party of the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has invited opposition groups to join the government if it wins Sudan's first multi-party elections in almost a quarter of a century.[04:05.18]The voting ends on Thursday that many parties opted to boycott. From Sudan, James Copnall reports.[04:11.55]The presidential adviser Ghazi Salahuddin said opposition parties would be offered roles in the government to be formed after the elections.[04:19.24]Officials from President Omar al-Bashir's National Congress Party were saying similar things in separate interviews.[04:25.43]The exact proposal is not yet clear, and so there was no firm response from the various opposition groups, some of which boycotted the elections.[04:33.83]But Dr Salahuddin said the offer would apply even to those who didn't participate.[04:38.88]It can even apply to rebel groups in Darfur if they sign peace deals. [04:43.45]The head of the World Bank Robert Zoellick says it's time to stop using the term Third World to refer to developing countries.[04:52.04]Mr Zoellick said the global economic crisis had shown that such categorizations were no longer relevant.[04:56.83]BBC News.英国举行首场大选电视辩论[00:00.29]BBC News with Iain Purdon[00:03.69]The President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev has left the country and flown to neighboring Kazakhstan almost a week after his political opponents seized power.[00:13.26]The authorities in Kazakhstan said his departure had been organized with the help of Russia and the United States.[00:19.29] Rayhan Demytrie reports.[00:20.98]A plane carrying the ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev took off from Jalalabad Airport on Thursday evening.[00:27.81]Within an hour, the foreign ministry of Kazakhstan issued a statement, saying Mr Bakiyev landed in the Kazakh city of Taraz.[00:34.96]His departure, the statement said, was a result of negotiations between the US, Russia, Kazakhstan and a number of other international diplomats.[00:43.47]And it was done for the prevention of civil war and further unrest in the country.[00:47.59]A huge plume of drifting ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland has disrupted air transport across much of Europe.Flights have been grounded in countries as far apart as Ireland, Norway and Poland. [00:59.74]Tens of thousands of passengers are stranded and international flights to and from Europe have also been affected.[01:05.95]In an unprecedented move, Britain closes its entire airspace to all but emergency flights.[01:11.68]Dave Reynolds is the flight safety officer for the pilots union, the British Airline Pilots Association.[01:17.80]"The major issue, which has been highlighted, is the fact that this volcanic ash can get inside the aircraft engines and can make them cease to operate,but also significantly, the ash can get inside the aircraft's instrument systems and under conditions where the pilots are using their instruments to fly the aircraft,[01:35.87]they will find themselves in the very dangerous situation, not being able to have reliable instruments."[01:40.92]The first ever television election debate has been taking place between the leaders of Britain's three main political parties.[01:48.21]The Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his rivals, the Conservative leader David Cameron and the leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg,[01:55.19]took questions from an invited studio audience. Ian Watson reports. [01:59.64]With the polls pointing to the possibility of a hung parliament, the party leaders wanted to avoid slip-ups and none of them committed obvious gaffes [02:07.66]They addressed each other in first name terms but after 15 minutes the interruption's begun.The prime minister clearly decided that the best form of defence was attack,[02:17.16]delivering his first drive when he told David Cameron that it wasn't question time but answer time over police funding.The Conservative leader was far less confrontational, but consistently reminded voters that Labour had 13 years to implement better policies but it failed to do so. In one of his most direct references to the widening Roman Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal, Pope Benedict has said Christians need to do penance for sins. [02:43.40]During a private mass inside the Vatican, the Pope said the Church had come under attack from the world,[02:49.17]and needed to recognize its mistakes. Hundreds of people in North America and Europe have accused priests of child abuse.[02:57.64]World News from the BBC[03:00.71]There has been a bomb explosion in the Afghan city of Kandahar.[03:05.11]Initial reports said at least six people were killed and that some of them were foreign workers.Several other people were wounded. The Foreign Office in London said it was investigating unconfirmed reports that British citizens were among the casualties. [03:18.47]The former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denied allegations that he took bribes to facilitate the building of a controversial residential complex while he was mayor of Jerusalem.[03:31.00]He's been named by Israeli investigators as a prime suspect in a multimillion-dollar corruption scandal.[03:36.85]Appearing on national television, Mr Olmert, who is already on trial in another corruption case,[03:42.63]urged people not to jump to conclusions and said he would cooperate with the police investigation.[03:48.13]President Obama has announced plans for new space exploration, saying they could lead to landings on an asteroid and the planet Mars within 25 years. [03:58.84]Speaking at Cape Canaveral, Mr Obama said he was fully committed to the American space agency NASA despite the coming end of its space shuttle program. President Obama also said he wanted to see a successor developed to the Hubble Telescope.[04:12.20]"NASA from the start, several months ago when I issued my budget was one of the areas where we didn't just maintain a freeze but we actually increased funding by six billion dollars.[04:22.82]By doing that, we'll ramp up robotic exploration of the solar system, including a probe of the sun's atmosphere,[04:29.63]new scouting missions to Mars and other destinations and an advanced telescope to follow Hubble,[04:35.28]allowing us to peer deeper into the universe than ever before."Teachers in a town in Somalia say Islamist militants have told schools to stop ringing bells to summon children because they sound like those used in Christian churches. [04:49.51]A teacher said the militant group al-Shabab had told schools in the town of Jowhar that if they failed to comply,[04:55.77]they would be taken before an Islamic court.[04:58.68]BBC NewsAs leaders from nearly[00:00.07]BBC News with David Austin.As leaders from nearly 50 countries meet in Washington for a major summit on Nuclear Security,Ukraine has pledged to eliminate stockpile of highly enriched uranium by 2012. Ukraine will also convert its several nuclear research facilities to use low enriched uranium.[00:19.44]The summit, the biggest international meeting hosted by the US since 1945, has been called by president Obama.[00:26.61]Our diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus reports from Washington. [00:30.44]The timing may have been choreographed for the decision by the Ukraine authorities is just the sort of news president Barack Obama wants to hear.[00:38.45]This summit is all about securing stocks of fissile material, highly enriched uranium and plutonium could potentially be used by terrorists to build a nuclear bomb. [00:47.90]US officials said that Ukraine has sufficient highly enriched uranium for several nuclear weapons.[00:53.36]This will be removed with some help from the United States. This is a precedent Obama would like other countries to follow and just to underscore the gravity of the potential threat.[01:04.26]John Briton, a senior US counter-terrorism official, has warned that al-Qaeda has been seeking material for a nuclear bomb for over 15 years and that interest remains strong.[01:14.13]The body of the Polish president¡¯s wife has now been identified fol lowing Saturday¡¯s plane crash in Russia,[01:19.87] in which she, her husband Lech Kaczynski, and dozens of senior Polish political and military officials were killed.[01:26.70]The remains of most of the 96 people have now been recovered from the crash site in Western Russia.[01:32.20]Richard Galpin reports from Moscow.[01:34.44]Investigators say the body of Maria Kaczynski was identified by her brother who flew to Moscow to carry out the distressing task.[01:42.33]So far, they¡¯ve identified 17 bodies. It¡¯s thought DNA testing would be needed in some cases because of the impact of the crash and the fire that followed. [01:52.70] Investigators are now reported to have almost finished reading the information on the plane¡¯s data recorders or bla ck boxes.[02:00.62] A senior minister told the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that the crew of the Polish president¡¯s plane had received[02:08.61]the warnings from the control tower that they should not land there because of the bad weather conditions.[02:12.06]The Vatican has clarified its position on a reporting of sex abuse cases involving members of the Roman Catholic clergy.[02:18.33]For the first time it¡¯s posted on its website a guideline, spelling out that bishops and other high ranking clergy should report sex abuse by priests to the police. [02:27.54]The Vatican says this has been its policy for some time.[02:30.51]A former prime minister and the governor of the central bank in Iceland are among senior officials accused of[02:36.91]gross negligence for the banking collapse in 2008 which crippled the country¡¯s economy.[02:42.85]And an official investigation of the financial crisis said seven political and financial leaders including the former Prime Minister Geir Haarde[02:51.12]did have the necessary information to prevent the melt-down but they failed to act on it.[02:56.44]This is the World News from the BBC.[02:59.91]Senior officials from the American State Department today visited Moscow to urge Russia to continue allowing the adoption of Russian children by US families. [03:09.65]On Friday, Russia said it was considering suspending all such adoptions after a 7-year-old Russian boy was sent back to Moscow unaccompanied when his adoptive American family rejected him.[03:20.70]The Russian president Dmitry Medvedev called the return of the boy a monstrous act. [03:26.01]In Sudan, the national election commission has announced its extending voting for 2 days after logistical problems affected the start of the polls.[03:35.68]The election will now end on Thursday. Here is James Copnall in Khartoum.03:40.07]Electoral commission had previously acknowledged some technical mistakes on the first day of the vote.[03:45.31]Many polling centers did not open on time after electoral material arrived late was wrong.[03:51.02]The decision to extend was taken to make sure everyone would be able to vote according to electoral commission.[03:56.85]The body¡¯s been heavily criticized in particular by the northern oppositio n parties and the former southern rebels,the SPLM, many of them have totally or partially boycotted the polls because they believe electoral commission has rigged the polls for president Omar al-Bashir. [04:11.83]South Korea has arrested one of its citizens on suspicion of kidnapping North Korean fugitives in neighboring China[04:18.59]and then taking them back to the north where they face harsh punishment. [04:22.12]Prosecutors say the man identified only as Kim was recruited years ago by a female North Korean agent.[04:28.69]Almost all those fleeing North Korea travel secretly via China.[04:32.66]The captain of Togo¡¯s football team Emmanuel Adebayor says he¡¯s retiring from the game at the international level[04:40.81]because he¡¯s still traumatized by the attack on his team¡¯s bus at the African Cup of nations in January.[04:46.52]Gunmen shot dead an assistant coach and the team¡¯s spokesman in the attack in Angola.[04:51.76]26-year-old Adebayor plays for the English Premier League Club,Manchester city.[04:56.97]That¡¯s the latest BBC News.Huge numbers of people[00:00.08]BBC news with Michael Powles.[00:03.83]Huge numbers of people in Chile are still waiting for vital aid after the weekend’s massive earthquake.[00:09.46]Reports from the badly damaged city Concepcion says trucks carrying supplies have been held up by bureaucracy and long traffic queues.[00:17.10]Our correspondent Claire Marshall reports from the coastal town of Constitucion which was also badly affected.[00:23.04]Four days after the earthquake, aid has yet to reach this part of the coast, people are growing frustrated.[00:29.34]There is no water, we are running out of food, there is no electricity either, there are no medicines and I don’t know anything about my family.[00:44.79]More than 300 people are thought to have died just in this one town. Many destroyed houses have yet to be searched for bodies,[00:52.24]so the number of dead could be even higher.[00:54.84]The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has said that his country risks bankruptcy if it does not take extra measures to tackle its budget crisis.[01:03.00]Further budget counts are expected following pressure from the European Union. Malcolm Brabant reports from Athens.[01:09.13]Mr. Papandreou was used some dramatic phrases to describe Greece’s fiscal problems over the past few months.[01:15.22]But this is his most alarmist to date. He told the parliamentary group of his socialist party, we find ourselves in the wartime situation.[01:23.13]Faced with the negative scenarios affecting our country. He said that Greece had to avoid the nightmare of bankruptcy in which the state would not able to pay salaries or pensions.[01:32.87]Mr. Papandreou was effectively telling Greeks to prepare themselves for another blow to their wallets.[01:38.46]The mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat has unveiled the controversial plan to turn a Palestine neighbourhood in the Israeli occupied eastern part of the city into an upmarket area of parkland,[01:49.15]restaurant and tourist attractions. He said the idea would have many advantages.[01:53.64]The plan is for the benefit of the residents alongside. The importance of developing the area for the benefit of the world,[02:05.34]for the benefit of tourists, and for the beauty of the city of Jerusalem. [02:09.54]Palestinians living in 88 buildings on the site have already been given demolition orders.[02:14.38]Their homes were built without planning permission which they say is virtually impossible to obtain from Israelis.[02:20.38]A senior Palestinian official Mohammed Ishtayeh said the development planwas a provocation.[02:25.65]There is no way that the Palestinians can accept the demolishing of houses in Jerusalem and the continuation of building settlements for the Jewish settlers. [02:34.71]It’s very astonishing and very odd that Israel is going into these measures. [02:40.69]The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused his political rivals of receiving money from foreign powers to finance their electoral campaigns.[02:49.57]Mr.al-Maliki made the charge in a BBC interview but did not spell out which countries he had in mind.[02:54.88]Parliamentary elections are due on Sunday.[02:57.49]World News from the BBC.[02:59.95]The Ukrainian Prime Minister and defeated presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko has reacted angrily to an announcement that her governing coalition had collapsed.[03:10.99]Mrs. Tymoshenko told journalist in Kiev that the parliamentary speaker who made the announcement after a number of[03:16.85]her supporters in parliament switched their religions had no legal right to act in the way he did.[03:21.68]The United States' envoy to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke says Washington is worried about new restrictions on media reporting imposed by the Afghanistan authorities.[03:31.56]He was responding to an announcement by Afghanistan intelligence service that live media coverage of militant attacks has been banned because it bolsters their cause.[03:40.82]Mr. Holbrooke said Washington would raise the issue with the Afghan government.[03:44.45]It’s pretty obvious that we support free press. We don’t like restrictions on the press, and my whole careers have been devoted to supporting that,[03:54.79]and I and the Secretary of State are concerned and will make our support of free access by the press clear to the government.[04:04.54]The main political parties in Britain have reached agreement with broadcasters on the format for the country’s first live election debate between the party leaders.[04:13.41]With the general election due within the month, the parties have agreed to three nationwide debates in front of live audiences.[04:21.06]This will involve the Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the leaders of opposition of Conservative and Liberal Democratic Parties.[04:26.12]Separate additional debates will be arranged in Wales and Scotland. [04:29.93]Scientists say ostrich shell fragments found in South Africa with symbols inscribed on them are among the earliest examples of written communication by modern humans.[04:40.41] The collection of nearly 300 etched shells found in a rock shelter have been dated to about 60,000 years ago.[04:46.61] Researchers say the etchings were almost certainly a form of messaging that could bring great insight into the development of symbolic thought that marked a11。